Fact checking the AP fact checker

According to Pete Yost last week in a superficial AP fact check story: “Republican presidential candidates have claimed that the Obama administration is cleansing government files of references to radical Islam, an assertion so juicy that politicians keep repeating it — even though it’s a wild exaggeration.”

Who will fact check the fact checkers? It’s the question raised by Mark Hemingway’s Weekly Standard cover story “Lies, damned lies, and ‘fact checking.'” Yost’s article seems to me to provide another illustration of the reason for the scare quotes Hemingway put around “fact checking.”